No report\u2019s findings in the field of assessing cybercrime is ever going to be fixed. Quite simply, we need to operate on the principle that threats keep on evolving. It\u2019s important to apply this maxim, not just to how cyberattackers are changing approaches, but also to how our own use of technology to make our organisations function and flourish is evolving too. As such we must regularly review where and how cyberthreat information is shared.<\/p>\n
According to the report, the rapid adoption of business and consumer cloud services and devices, such as wearables that share information, can provide attackers with insight into our lifestyles that could be used against us. But it is equally important to focus on how these could be sources to tap into business data that may not be recognized as a threat.\u00a0For example, while many businesses have significant controls around their core data centers, cloud storage can be a weak point, with businesses often not clear on where and why they are being used.<\/p>\n
Stealing genuine credentials is still one of the most common motives for attackers, as with these, an adversary can bypass the entire attack lifecycle by impersonating a valid user, move uninterrupted throughout the organization's network, and shift to the abuse of credentials from within. Where data is stored outside the business, awareness of credential misuse can often go undetected.\u00a0Cyber risk prevention must start with visibility of your continually evolving IT space and examining where you can reduce your risks by reducing the potential attack surface you expose.<\/p>\n
Industry Collaboration Is Key<\/h3>\n
As government bodies collaborate more closely, so should our industry. In recent years, CISP has been a great initiative for cyberthreat intelligence sharing between UK organizations. It is also great to see how the Cyber Threat Alliance is driving collaboration between security vendors to better work together and automate sharing. Importantly this is not just the sharing of threats that are seen, but also the blocking of controls and context about the attackers.<\/p>\n
Returning to the goals of the NCSC, the forces of collaboration, crowdsourcing intelligence and cybersecurity computer power are going to be critical to success in fighting the threats we face. Like any movement for change, it\u2019s essential to begin at the grass roots, getting every business and indeed individual to recognize their role and responsibility, and what value they add into the process of prevention. The more we can work together, the more we can move unknown high-risk attacks into known attacks that are prevented or contained effectively. The role of vendors like Palo Alto Networks is to simplify this process, so cybersecurity and prevention are instinctive, even automatic, behaviours to how we run our economy and live our lives digitally.<\/p>\n
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